Asia Pacific

Automation helps insurer launch new services to 10MM customers

100%

of app dev requests met

Streamlined

security administration

Faster

service delivery

Business Challenge

With more than 10 million customers, HUK-COBURG is one of Germany’s largest insurance providers. The company's database administration team strives to improve productivity and efficiency and deliver optimal service. Tasked with managing an IT environment comprising two z10 machines, parallel sysplex four-way data sharing, and multiple images of DB2 databases, and with over 200 developers who constantly need information on IBM® DB2® objects, the DBA staff was overwhelmed by requests for support.

Developers can now compare past and present DB2 object structures, reducing contention on the original DB2 catalog.

DB2 availability is higher because developers can audit data changes, undo bad transactions, and migrate DB2 for z/OS data to other DB2 or relational database management systems without any downtime.

“Our goal was to automate many of the tedious tasks associated with DB2 administration and enable developers to find the information they need without support from the hard-pressed DBA team. After we implemented BMC Catalog Manager in production, the satisfaction levels among the application development department went through the roof.”